WARD HarrietFive Years in Kaffirland; with sketches of the late war in that country, to the conclusion of peace. Written on the spot London: Henry Colburn, first edition , 1848. 2 volumes. ix and 306 pages; vii and 370 pages. 2 views, 1 map. Later quarter calf with blue cloth sides and red leather labels, the labels are slightly chipped. Mrs Ward's husband was a captain in the 91st. Her book is the best eye-witness account of the War of the Axe.

[BOYCE, William, editor].The Gleaner from August 7 1847, to January 30 1848 Volume 1 . Sydney, printed by Robert Barr, 1848. First edition:pp[4], 388. 8vo, bound in full red morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, spines raised in compartments, gilt decorations and lettering. In a matching cloth slipcase. The first 26 issues of this periodical issued with a title page and Index. The editor was William Boyce of the Wesleyan Mission. The journal deals with Christian matters both in Australia and overseas, and also in general colonial news - immigration, communications between Australia and England, shipping arrivals and departures, visits from overseas dignitaries, pastoral and agricultural news, as well as some poetry and prose. Ferguson 4771.

WELLS, WILLIAM HENRYA Geographical Dictionary; Or Gazeteer Of The Australian Colonies: Their Physical And Political Geography. Together With A Brief Notice Of All The Capitals, Principal Towns And Villages; Also Of Bays, Gulfs, Mountains, Population And General Statistics. Illustrated With Numerous Maps And Drawings. Sydney, W. & F. Ford, George Street. (c-1848). the date of publication on the title page has a small piece pasted over it stating London: Effingham Wilson, Publisher, Royal Exchange. (This most likely for copies that were to be sold in London). First Edition; 8vo; pp. xvi, 440 last page blank; two frontispieces; folding map of Australia and 22 lithograph maps with outline colouring, list of books consulted, list of subscribers names; contemporary full leather calf binding, ribbed spine, title on red panel. marbled endpapers, marbled page edges; back-strips ornate gilt, gilt rectangles on both boards, ornate gilt design to edges of boards; bound without advertisements, endpapers and first few pages lightly foxed, bookplate on front endpaper; minor bumping to corners and edges; leather has a few minor marks, otherwise a very good bright copy. The book contains very early comments on gold, both in ore and sand, at Mount Disappointment Victoria. Chapters on Aborigines include whites being reincarnations of their own people, burial rites. Several pages on Boyd Town including various recommendations from Ship Captains, listing on Adelaide Port includes directions to sail a safe course steering by Mount Lofty which has had the trees cut off from its summit and warnings of Shoals. Descriptions of St. Kilda, River Yarra is called the Yarra Yarra with waterfalls, pop. of Melbourne given as 17,333; Geelong, 3870; and Portland 2267; Sydney pop. includes sexes and religions, folding map has divisions of Central South Australia, Central North Australia, Endrachts Land, De Witts Land, North Australia and Van Diemens Land and much more. Does not contain the ads. Ferguson 4949.

Erman, Adolph (Translated from German by William D. Cooley)Travels in Siberia: Including Excursions Northwards, Down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and Southwards to the Chinese Frontier. (2 Volumes) Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London 1848 - Full leather contemporary bindings, with gilt decorated spines, marbled edges and matching endpapers. xi, 495; ix, 536 pgs. Folding map at the end of volume 2. Contemporary gift inscription to the first blank page of volume 1 and bookplates to the front pastedown endpapers of each volume. Weakened outer hinge at the top of vol.1. This is the first English edition of Erman's scientific travels through Siberia. The American edition; Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1850, does not include the map of this edition. An excellent, clean set. Additional photos available if required. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Strickland, Hugh Edwin (1811-1853); Melville, Alexander Gordon (1819-1901)The Dodo and its Kindred; or the History, Affinities, and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other extinct birds of the Islands Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Bourbon. Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good Condition, First EditionSize: 25cm x 31cm, (10 pages) - 142 pages - (12 pages, Catalogue), errata slip, 18 plates of which 13 lithos, 2 hand-coloured, one folding. COMPLETE. FIRST EDITION. Cover is lightly rubbed, rebacked. Some light foxing to a few plates, light dampstaining at the bottom of a few plates at the end. Otherwise inside pages and plates are in very good condition, unmarked and tight. SCARCE. 25cm x 31cm. Photos available upon request. Anker 486; Sitwell 145; Wood, p. 585 ("the standard work on the subject"); Zimmer, p. 606, Livre

MUNDY, RodneyNarrative of events in Borneo and Celebes, down to the Occupation of Labuan: London, John Murray,, 1848. From the Journals of James Brooke, Esq. Rajah of Sarawak, and Governor of Labuan. Together with a Narrative of the Operations of H.M.S. Iris. 2 volumes, octavo. Original red embossed cloth, title gilt to spines, gilt block of the seal of the Sultan of Borneo to lower boards, and of a pirate prahu, or proa, to the upper boards. Lithographed portrait frontispiece to vol. I, single-tint lithograph frontispiece to vol. II, 5 single-tint lithograph and 11 wood-engraved plates, 5 folding maps, one of them coloured, in all. Armorial book plates of [Lt.-Col.] Sir Edward Baker Baker to the front pastedowns. Light browning, one lithograph a little hygroscopically damped, slightly rubbed, Volume I neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down. An attractive set. First edition of this key source for the biography of Sir James Brooke (1803&#150;1868), army officer and first raja of Sarawak, the epitome of the British romantic "orientalist" and one of the icons of early Victorian imperialism. Mundy accompanied Sir Thomas John Cochrane to Borneo in 1846, where, in co-operation with Brooke, he was engaged for the next six months in a brilliant series of operations against the Borneo pirate tribes described in detail here, punishing "the Brunei pirates by destroying their forts and other buildings" (ODNB). Mundy took formal possession of Labuan on 24 December 1846. The spirited illustrations, from Mundy&#39;s own drawings, include his visit to the Sultan of Brunei, the capture of Brunei, and other of the expedition&#39;s actions, together with the signing of the Treaty of the Cession of Labuan, the track charts include track charts of Brooke&#39;s yacht Royalist in the Gulf of Boni; and of HMS Iris off the coast of "Borneo Proper," including an inset of the capture of Brunei.

Lieut. Col. W.H. Emory; AND, Lieut. J.W. Abert; AND, Col. P. St. George Cooke; AND, Captain A.R. JohnstonNotes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers; AND, Report of Lieut. J. W. Abert; AND, Cook's March from Santa Fe; AND, Journal of Johnston Wendell and Van Benthuysen., Washington 1848 - FIRST EDITION. House of Representatives Edition which proceeds the Senate edition. Title page mistakenly lists Emory as "Lieut. Col.". Original dark brown cloth with paper label title "New Mexico, and California, by Emory, Abert, Cooke, and Johnston". Contains some scuffs and nicks. Right spine edge is loose. Pages are age-toned and stiff with a few foxed. Includes wonderful pen and ink drawings in fine condition. Two fold out maps and three maps of battles in California with the Mexicans. Large fold-out map with 5" tear from inner margin affecting the map, "The Territory of New Mexico, 1846-47"; 67 plates. Page 454 misprinted as 754. 614pp. Overall GOOD minus condition. Extreemely scarce first edition. Damp staining to bottom corner throughout. Previous owner's notes on first page from 1929. Includes the reports of J.W. Abert and Philip St. George Cooke. Together they summarize the activity of the U.S. Army to the west of Santa Fe after the capture of New Mexico by the Army of the West. The first folding map is Philip St. George Cooke's "Sketch of Part of the march & Wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke, from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846-7." This shows the route of the Mormon Battalion from Santa Fe to the Gila River. The other, "Map of the Territory of New Mexico," was compiled by Lieutenants Abert and Peck after the conquest of New Mexico. Both are important contributions to western cartography. Abert's report includes material on the Indians of New Mexico and their languages. The Abert report also includes all of his views of New Mexico, the best group of early New Mexico views published. Wagner-Camp is in error in its collation of this edition, mistakenly calling for only forty plates, plus those of the Abert report. William Hemsley Emory (September 7, 1811 -- December 1, 1887) was an United States Army officer and surveyor of Texas. Emory was born in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, on his family's "Poplar Grove" estate. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and graduated in 1831. Assigned as a second lieutenant, he served in the Corps of Engineers until he resigned from the service in 1836 to pursue civil engineering, but he returned to the service in 1838.During that same year, he married a great-grandaughter of Benjamin Franklin, Matilda Wilkins Bache of Philadelphia. The couple would have three children. During his second stint in the army, he was successively promoted from lieutenant to captain and finally to major. He specialized in mapping the United States border, including the Texas-Mexico border, the United States-Canadian border(1844&#150;1866) and the Gadsen Purchase (1854 -- 1857). In 1844, Emory served in an expedition that produced a new map of Texan claims westward to the Rio Grande River. He came to public attention as the author of the Notes of a Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, California, published by the Thirtieth United States Congress in 1848. This report described terrain and rivers, cities and forts and made observations about Indians, Mexicans, primarily in New Mexico Territory, Arizona Territory and Southern California. It was and is considered one of the important chronicles and descriptions of the historic Southwest, particularly noted for its maps. Emory was a reliable and conscientous cartographer. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

HALLIWELL, JamesA Life Of William Shakespeare; Including Many Particulars Respecting The Poet And His Family Never Before Published John Russell Smith 1848 - Professionally rebound in quarter calf, cloth sides, new handmade end papers. Blind spine with many cuttings and photos relating to Shakespeare added throughout, making this a very unique copy, added circa late 19th century. Red spine label with gilt lettering. Internally tight, bright and clean. Very minor markings to early pages. A scarce and very unusual copy. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 1168g. (YBP Ref: 265/4 15) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall [Attributes: Hard Cover]

ABRAHAM LINCOLNLincoln's Spot Resolutions Washington 1848 - Newspaper. National Intelligencer, Thursday, December 23, 1847. Washington: Gales & Seaton . 4 pp. Offered with another issue of the National Intelligencer, January 20, 1848. 4 pp. Lincoln's spot resolution and speech condemns the pretexts for starting the war with Mexico. He requests proof from President Polk that American blood was shed on American soil and that the enemy provoked the Americans, and he asks if those Americans present were ordered there by the United States Army. ExcerptsDecember 23, 1847 issuePage [2], bottom of first column to second column,Mr. LINCOLN moved the following preamble and resolutions, which were read and laid over under the rule: Whereas, the President of the United States, in his message of May 11, 1846, has declared that "the Mexican Government not only refused to receive him, [the envoy of the United States,] or listen to his propositions, but, after a long-continued series of menaces, have, at last invaded our territory and shed the blood of our fellow citizens on our own soil." And again, in his message of December 8, 1846, that "we had ample cause of war against Mexico long before the breaking out of hostilities; but even we forbore to take redress into our own hands until Mexico herself became the aggressor, by invading our soil in hostile array and shedding the blood of our citizens." And yet again, in his message of December 7, 1847. Resolved by the House of Representatives, that the President of the United States be respectfully requested to inform this House- 1st. Whether the spot on which the blood of our citizens was shed, as in his messages declared, was or was not within the territory of Spain, at least after the treaty of 1819 until the Mexican Revolution. 2d. Whether that spot is or is not within the territory which was wrested from Spain by the revolutionary Government of Mexico. 3d. Whether that spot is or is not within a settlement of people, which settlement has existed ever since long before the Texas revolution, and until its inhabitants fled before the approach of the United States army. 4th. Whether that settlement is or is not isolated from any and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. 5th. Whether the people of that settlement, or a majority of them, have ever submitted themselves to the government or laws of Texas or of the United States, by consent or by compulsion, either by accepting office, or voting at elections, or paying tax, or serving on juries, or having process served upon them, or in any other way. 6th . Whether the people of that settlement did or did not flee from the approach of the United States army, leaving unprotected their homes and their growing crops, before the blood was shed, as in the messages stated; and whether the first blood, so shed, was or was not shed within the enclosure of one of the people who had thus fled from it. 7th. Whether our citizens, whose blood was shed, as in his messages declared, were or were not, at that time armed officers and soldiers, sent into that settlement by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. 8th. Whether the military force of the United States was or was not so sent into that settlement after Gen. Taylor had more than once intimated to the War Department that, in his opinion, no such movement was necessary to the defense or protection of Texas. Several resolutions of inquiry were here offered my Messrs. GEORGE S. HOUSTON, W.P. HALL, PHELPS GREEN, McCLELLAND, and KAUFMAN, which are omitted for want of room.January 20, 1848 issue: Page [2], bottom of 3rd column thru 6th column. In this lengthy address, Lincoln questions President Polk's judgment regarding the aims and prosecution of the war in Mexico, putting it in the context of the American Revolution: "Texas revolutionized against Mexico and became the owner of something.if she got it in any wa. (See website for full description)

Legal Publishing; Indiana Law Reporter; RandallPublisher&#39;s Prospectus 1848. "Would it Not be Well for All of us to Become Lawyers, So That We May Come in for a Share of the Spoils?" [Legal Publishing]. Indiana Law Reporter. Richard Randall. [Publisher&#39;s Prospectus for the Constitution and Laws of Indiana and the Indiana Law Reporter]. Jeffersonville, IA, [1848]. 12-1/2" x 7-1/2" broadside. Light toning, faint horizontal fold lines, a copy of tiny spots, otherwise fine. * Issued to salesmen, this is a prospectus and subscription form for two titles published by Randall, the Constitution and Laws of Indiana, a handbook, and the Indiana Law Reporter, a monthly publication. Both titles are aimed at laymen. The prospectus displays an intense antipathy to lawyers and plays on the popular ideas of self-reliance, the shrewdness of the common man and upward mobility. The annotation for the Constitution and Laws states: "As the Lawyers seem to have all the honors and emoluments of office thrust upon them would it not be well for all of us to become Lawyers, so that we may come in for a share of the spoils?" "[F]or only 25 cents [this book] will give you enough law at least to teach you how to prevent the Lawyers from getting their fingers in your pocket. (...) EVERY MAN, who claims the title of FREEMAN, ought to understand the Constitution and Laws by which he is governed. (...) Many of our eminent Statesmen have risen from the humblest stations in life, to greatness and dignity. Most of them, in fact, were born in our Buckeye cabins, and were nurtured in the forests of nature." It also plays on the desire to save money. The description of the Indiana Law Reporter notes that "an acquaintance with the Law, and with the necessary forms of drawing up instruments of writing, may save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars." We found no information about Richard Randall or his books. It is quite possible that his venture failed. It is equally possible that he was a confidence man, a predecessor of the present-day internet scammer.

Disturnell, JohnDisturnell&#39;s Hudson River Guide. Disturnell&#39;s Map of the Hudson River New York:. 1848.. Very good overall. "West Point ... This is the most beautiful and romantic spot on the banks of the Hudson, and the seat of the most important military school in the Union. The buildings, belonging to the United States government, are well adapted for the purposes intended. There is also an hotel, standing on elevated ground, near the steamboat landing, which is thronged with fashionable visitors during the summer months." Long decorative original color map of the Hudson River and adjacent countryside, from Jessop&#39;s Landing to the Atlantic Ocean, with accompanying text. The towns are described in detail in two columns on either side of the map, including descriptions of cities, villages, etc. on East and West sides of the river; and information on steamboat arrangements and tours, railroad and stage routes. Four woodblock illustrations of steamers appear as head and foot pieces to the columns of text, and under Steamboat arrangements is found, "Usual Fare, with berth from New York to Albany or Troy, $1.00". Original folds visible with a chip in the top centerfold restored just affecting the "s" of Hudson. 13 x 25 1/4" with margins. OCLC: 83906811. "Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1848, by John Disturnell, in the Clerk&#39;s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York."

CAREY, Henry C.The Past, the Present, and the Future. Carey & Hart, Phila., (PA) 1848 - First edition. 8vo. 474 pp. Carey (1793-1879) succeeded his father, Mathew Carey, in the family publishing business, but earned wider recognition as an economist; in this work "he announced himself the foe of the free-trade system . giving definitive statement to his opposition to the Ricardian theory of rent, maintaining that the order of occupation has been from poorer to better soils, and that the progress of associated labor and capital must always bring increasing rather than diminishing returns to effort" (DAB). Cf. Dorfman, vol. II, pp. 806-807. Original brown cloth, gilt spine title. Some repair at head of spine and along joints, else very good. (1453) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

MUNDY, RODNEY, Capt.Narrative of events in Borneo and Celebes, down to the occupation of Labuan: from the journals of James Brooke, Esq. Rajah of Sarawak, and governor of Labuan. Together with a narrative of the operations of H. M. S. Iris. John Murray, London 1848 - First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 385, [1]; xi, [1], 395; engraved frontispiece portrait, 5 folding maps and charts (1 hand- colored), 6 lithograph plates, 11 wood-engraved plates; original pictorial red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and gilt vignette of a sailing vessel on upper covers, the seal of the Sultan of Borneo on lower covers; both volumes neatly rebacked with old spines laid down, but with loss of "ah" in 'Rajah' on vol. I, vol. II with a 2" x 1" piece of cloth laid down on the upper cover of volume II (not affecting the vignette); all else very good and sound. National Maritime Museum Catalogue I, 461: "These events, which occurred between 1839-1847, were closely connected with the expedition of Captain Henry Keppel to the area, in HMS Dido and Maeander" in order to suppress Borneo piracy." [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

"MUNDY, RODNEY, Capt.""Narrative of events in Borneo and Celebes, down to the occupation of Labuan: from the journals of James Brooke, Esq. Rajah of Sarawak, and governor of Labuan. Together with a narrative of the operations of H. M. S. Iris." London: John Murray. 1848. "First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 385, [1]; xi, [1], 395; engraved frontispiece portrait, 5 folding maps and charts (1 hand- colored), 6 lithograph plates, 11 wood-engraved plates; original pictorial red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and gilt vignette of a sailing vessel on upper covers, the seal of the Sultan of Borneo on lower covers; both volumes neatly rebacked with old spines laid down, but with loss of ""ah"" in &#39;Rajah&#39; on vol. I, vol. II with a 2"" x 1"" piece of cloth laid down on the upper cover of volume II (not affecting the vignette); all else very good and sound. National Maritime Museum Catalogue I, 461: ""These events, which occurred between 1839-1847, were closely connected with the expedition of Captain Henry Keppel to the area, in HMS Dido and Maeander"" in order to suppress Borneo piracy."""

JAMESON, Mrs. [Anna Brownell]SACRED AND LEGENDARY ART London.: Longman, Green, Brown et al.. Two volume set uniformly bound in 3/4 dark brown morocco. 1848. 1st edition. hb. 8vo, pp. 387, 439. "Containing Legends of the Angels and Archangels, The Evangelists, The Apostles, The Doctors of the Church...." . Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) was an art and literary critic. Born in Dublin as Anna Murphy, she spent her early adulthood as a governess, in which capacity she toured Europe. In 1825 she published "A Lady&#39;s Diary" (later "Diary of an Ennuyee"), a fictionalized account of her European tour. She married lawyer Robert Jameson in the same year, but they separated in 1829, when he became a judge in Dominica, and later in Upper Canada (now Ontario). In 1836, she joined her husband temporarily in Toronto, out of which experience she wrote the frank and informative "Winter Studies and Summer Rambles" (published 1838). She returned to England and continued writing where she became increasingly more respected as a critic. These two magnificent volumes are bound by Tout (probably around 1900), and show blind tooling and gilt rules to the boards, with raised bands to the spines, which are embellished with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Marbled eps and boards, with silk ribbon marker and t.e.g. The spines are rubbed at the crown and bottom, and the corners of the boards show similar light rubbing. Joints and hinges are tight, endpapers are clean and free of markings. Slight soiling to outer edges of some of the preliminary pages, otherwise contents are very clean. .

Declaration of IndependenceRare Force engraving of the Declaration of Independence printed in 1848 The Peter Force engraving of the Declaration of Independence, with remarkably exact renditions of the signers? hands. One of the best representations of the original manuscript Declaration, perhaps as few as 500 copies issued. Broadside: "The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America." [Washington: M. St. Clair Clarke and Peter Force, 1848], one page 26" x 29", copperplate engraving on thin rice paper. By 1820 the original Declaration of Independence (now housed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) showed serious signs of age and wear from handling. John Quincy Adams, then Secretary of State, commissioned William J. Stone to engrave an exact copy of the original onto a copper plate. In 1823, Congress ordered 200 official copies printed on vellum. Fewer than 40 of Stone?s printing on vellum are known to have survived, with at least 21 of those housed in institutions and public collections. ?These copies are characterized by the legend engraved in the left superi

[TRAVELS & VOYAGES]. Perkins, Edward TNa Motu; or, Reef-Rovings in the South Seas. A Narrative of Adventures at the Hawaiian, Georgian and Society Islands Pudney & Russell. First edition.. Some slight stains and foxing, particularly to the plates; very nice copy.. Hill 1325; Forbes 2046. 8vo, modern half red morocco, red cloth sides, gilt rules and lettering. Engraved title and eleven plates. ?In 1848 Perkins sailed on the Planet, an American whaling ship, to Hawaii, where he lived for nearly two years. He later spent considerable time on Bora Bora, Raiatea, and Tahiti, in the Society Islands. Perkins gives interesting data on whaling as well as on the islands he visited? - Hill; ?An important and lively narrative of life in Hawaii between 1849 and 1851? - Forbes.

Lowell, James Russell.]MELIBOEUS-HIPPONAX. THE BIGLOW PAPERS, Edited, with an Introduction, Notes, Glossary, and Copious Index, by Homer Wilbur [pseudonym]. Cambridge: Published by George Nichols, 1848 - Octavo, pp. [1] 2-8 [9] 10-12 [i-v] vi-xxxii [1] 2-163 [164: blank], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, bottom edge untrimmed, yellow endpapers. First edition, first printing. [With] MELIBOEUS-HIPPONAX. THE BIGLOW PAPERS. SECOND SERIES. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 12mo, pp. [1-4] [i-iii] iv [v] vi-lxxx [1] 2-258 [259-260: blank], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated purple cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, brown coated endpapers. First edition, first printing, trade format (2500 copies). "Out of all the writings of James Russell Lowell, the two series of BIGLOW PAPERS, joining wit, highly skillful writing, and a passionate devotion to liberty and country, may be regarded as his most distinctive contribution to the literature of his time" - DAB. BAL 13068 (binding A, no sequence established) and BAL 13126. Grolier Club, One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900 #57. Just a hint of rubbing to spine ends, a fine copy; the copy of the SECOND SERIES has a touch of sunning to spine panel (inevitable with this purple cloth), but is otherwise a fine copy. The two volumes enclosed in cloth folders and quarter brown crushed morocco slipcase. A handsome set of this American literary and political high spot. (#95374) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Secret Committee on Commercial Distress and Great Britain. Commercial Distress Committee (Lords):First report from the Secret Committee on Commercial Distress : with the minutes of evidence, [communicated by the Commons to the Lords] AND Second report from the Secret Committee on commercial distress : with the minutes of evidence. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 8 June [-2 August] 1848 AND Minutes of evidence taken before the secret committee of the House of Lords appointed to inquire into the causes of the distress which has for some time prevailed among the commercial classes, and hos far it has been affected by the laws for regulating the issue of bank notes payable on demand. Together with an appendix and an index. 1848. Reprinted 1857. [s.n.], 1848 1857, London - 2 contemporary half- leather bindings, 4°, xxiv, 480pages and xvi, 137 pages and 566 pages , a good copy Zwei vollkommen verschiedene Gründe waren in den Jahren 1847 und 1848 der Auslöser zum Ausbruch einer schweren Wirtschaftskrise. Zum einen führten die schlimmen Missernten des Jahres 1846 zu verstärkter Spekulation in Weizen und zum anderen trugen, wie wenige Jahre zuvor bereits in Deutschland, erneut Eisenbahnaktien einen großen Teil zur Panik bei an 4500 Buch [Attributes: Hard Cover]

LOUDON, Mrs. [Jane]British Wild Flowers London: William S. Orr & Co.. (1848). Second edition. Quarto. 60 hand-colored plates. Original cloth boards gilt, rebacked with contemporary cloth. Some light foxing to the plates, small spots of tape offsetting on front endpaper where the cover of a 1940 Red Cross Sale Catalogue was attached, and is now laid in, boards and corners worn, but still a sound about very good copy. .

Williams, William Frith:AN HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE BERMUDAS, FROM THEIRDISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME. London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1848. - xii,346pp. Folding colored frontispiece map. Contemporary three quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt spine label. Small tear in upper foredge of a few pages. Small closed tear repaired on verso of map. Map and titlepage slightly foxed, else quite clean and neat. A very good copy. Williams, a resident of Hamilton, Bermuda, drew largely on the heretofore unexamined material in the Public Records Office of the Colony. His work constitutes the first thorough history of Bermuda, from discovery and initial settlement through the mid- nineteenth century. There is a heavy emphasis on the political history of the island, and also information on geology, climate, agriculture, commerce, churches, etc. A lengthy appendix reprints many documents important in the history of the island. A scarce book - we can find only one copy appearing at auction in the last thirty years.